How many different countries were your great grandparents born in?

[Torie]

All were born in the US, but one, so that makes two countries. The most recent immigrant was one of my great grandfathers who moved to Brooklyn from Montreal in the early 1870's. I know via the Sarah Wildes connection (a Salem witch), that one ancestor and his wife (William and Abigail Averell) moved to Ipswich, MA in 1637. The details of all of my other ancestor immigrants are unknown, lost in the mists of time. The Dunn clan, my surname, pop up in Mathews County, VA around 1750, but nobody has any idea when they first arrived, and probably never will. The record keeping down there is sketchy, and all the real estate records were burned in Richmond (where they were sent for safe keeping during the Civil War) in 1865 when the Yankees moved in. All that are left are some tax records.

[Torie]

I missed the word "great." So the erratum has been corrected. Thank you.